Well, this is my situation, please somebody tell me what can I do to run blockMesh and star using OpenFOAM.

gschaider

June 25, 2008 18:08

Hi Cesar!
Out of personal c

Hi Cesar!

Out of personal curiosity: why are you installing 1.3? (If I do that, it's because of the retro-feeling. The good old days, when men were men and linear solver specifications were lines and not fancy dictionaries. SCNR) For a newcomer I would definitely recommend 1.4.1. It's one year old (==stable) and it's what most people who could help you use

Joke aside: you DID try it from a fresh shell? Not the same you preformed the necessary steps in (editing of .bashrc etc)

Bernhard

cesarbz

June 26, 2008 00:30

Well, I used OpenFOAM 1.3 for

Well, I used OpenFOAM 1.3 for the las 3 year and I never had any problem, so I had a good experience whit this version.

But, in consideration of this installation's problemas I am thinking seriosly in install 1.4.1 version.

marruda

July 3, 2008 12:02

Hi Cesar,
I am afraid I am ha

Hi Cesar,
I am afraid I am having a similar problem trying to run the blockMesh and other applications.
The error message is:
bash: /home/marruda/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.4.1/applications/bin/linuxGccDPOpt/blockMesh: No such file or directory

Have you managed to get it to work in the meanwhile?

Thanks.

madad2005

July 3, 2008 12:36

I had a similar problem when I

I had a similar problem when I first tried it, but I got it all installed fine after 2 or three attempts. It was normally not following instructions properly, or missing out a step. Someone else has already mentioned it, but the ubuntu openfoam installation guide is quite good. See here:

Thanks Adriano.
I have just decided to do the installation again from scratch and it now works.
Here's my thread of mistakes:
1. my os is Linux64 (ubuntu 6.10)
2. I first downloaded the linux64 binaries but forgot to set WN_64="on"
3. it didn't work giving me an error message:
bash: No such file or directory
4. Then I downloaded the linux32 binaries but the problem persisted ;(
5. started again with the binaries for linux64 but now setting WN_64="on"
6. Now it all seems to work... well at least I can run the tutorials.

Thanx for the help ;p

madad2005

July 4, 2008 04:44

No problem, Mauro. The WN_64="

No problem, Mauro. The WN_64="on" caught me out as well until I found the ubuntu guide. Good luck with the code! :-)